Stamkos provides two goals, Bolts shade Ducks

Teddy Purcell added a goal and two assists while Mathieu Garon stopped 28
shots for the Lightning, who have won three straight.

"This was huge for the team and huge for a lot of the players," said Stamkos.
"We wanted to get this win for us and the fans before we headed out on the
road."

Tampa, though, got some bad news on Tuesday as captain Vincent Lecavalier is
out indefinitely with a non-displaced fracture in his right hand.

Bobby Ryan and Saku Koivu both posted a goal and an assist for the Ducks, who
have dropped two of three. Jonas Hiller was touched for all three goals on 16
shots in the loss.

"Against a team like that you have to be really careful because they can score
on any shift," said Ryan. "Especially that top line with Stamkos, you have to
keep your eye on him all the time and we didn't do a good job of that."

Cam Fowler was called for hooking just 22 seconds into the game and that led
to a Tampa goal six seconds later when Stamkos was able to jam it in from the
left side.

Stamkos, the leading goal-scorer in the NHL, posted his 42nd goal of the
season with 2:02 to play in the first. Brett Clark blasted a shot on net from
the left point that missed, but it bounced off the backboard and went to the
right where Stamkos was to put it in for the easy goal.

The Ducks scored just 40 seconds into the second as Ryan grabbed the puck at
the left circle and centered it for Koivu, who one-timed it home.

Tampa got the goal back two minutes later as Purcell skated the puck in down
the right wing, stickhandled past one defender to get down low, then lifted a
backhander past the glove of Hiller.

The Ducks again made it a one-goal game with 1:22 to play in the second after
a bad clear was picked off along the right boards by Koivu, who sent the puck
down low and Ryan redirected it between his legs for his 22nd of the season.

Garon, though, preserved the lead throughout the third period with 11 saves to
grab the win.

Game Notes

Tampa plays its next three games on the road starting in Winnipeg on
Thursday...Anaheim, which is 4-1-2 during an eight-game swing, plays the final
contest of the trip in Carolina on Thursday...The Ducks had won the previous
three in the series.